A cooking enclosure is configured to hold food being cooked. The enclosure includes a surrounding, generally vertical, sidewall, projecting upward from a base. The base includes a floor bridging a bottom of enclosure, and the enclosure is capped by a vertically moving ceiling. The vertical moving ceiling secures a cooking heat source which is in thermal communication with the enclosure interior. The moving ceiling is configured to move up and down within the sidewall to vary, up and down, a volume of the cooking enclosure. The cooking enclosure is configured to have both a smaller cooking enclosure volume, suitable for quickly cooking small foods, and larger cooking enclosure volume necessary to cook larger foods.

There is disclosed a cooking appliance (2010) including: a body (2014) providing a floor (2016), a ceiling (2018) and an intermediate wall (2020) locating between the floor (2016) and ceiling (2018), the floor (2016), ceiling (2018), and wall (2020) at least partly surrounding a cooking cavity (2022), the body (2014) having an opening (2024) via which product to be cooked can be moved relative to the cavity (2022); at least one upper heating element (2030) located in an upper portion (2032) of the cavity (2022) to deliver radiant energy to cook the product; and at least one shield (2034) positioned relative to the element (2030) to shield a portion of the product from the radiant energy.

An electric grill includes an electric heating means inside a main body case thereof to apply infrared heat to a material to be cooked and is easy to clean after cooking. The main body case includes pillar main body cases vertically extending from an upper surface of a lower main body case and having vertically-arranged electric heating means. The pillar main body cases are coupled to each other, forming an inner space. A heat-resistant container through which infrared light is transmitted has a long rectangular barrel or cylindrical shape and is formed from a material through which infrared light is transmitted, thereby providing a structure in the inner space in which heat (infrared radiation) is directly transmitted to the inside of the heat-resistant container. A grilling tool allows the material to be cooked to be mounted thereon and is capable of directly heating and cooking the material with infrared radiation.

The present disclosure provides an electromagnetic heating device, comprising: an electromagnetic heating unit, an infrared heating unit and a MCU. The MCU is coupled with the electromagnetic heating unit and the infrared heating unit, so as to control the electromagnetic heating unit and the infrared heating unit to heat individually or simultaneously. The electromagnetic heating device of the present disclosure, since it comprises an electro electromagnetic heating unit and an infrared heating unit, the heating of the heating appliances of different materials can be performed, the application thereof is wide and unrestricted. In addition, since the infrared heating unit is comprised, the maximum heating power thereof is not limited by that of the coil disk.

A heating cooking device includes: a heating chamber having a front face opening; and a heater that is provided on an upper wall of the heating chamber to heat an object to be heated stored in the heating chamber, at least part of the heater being disposed at a center of the heating chamber seen from above. The heating cooking device further includes camera that is provided on the upper wall of the heating chamber and is disposed closer to a front of the heating chamber than the center of the heating chamber is when seen from above, with camera having an imaging direction inclined toward a rear side of the heating chamber with respect to a vertical direction. The heating cooking device further includes blower fan that is provided on the upper wall of the heating chamber, closer to a front of the heating chamber than the center of the heating chamber is when seen from above and is disposed at a position on one of a right side and a left side with respect to camera as seen from above, and that blows air toward camera from the one of the right side and the left side.

A heating cooking device includes: heating chamber having front face opening; and a heater to heat object to be heated stored in heating chamber. The heating cooking device further includes: camera that has optical axis inclined with respect to a vertical direction and is disposed on upper wall of heating chamber to face inside of heating chamber; and first illuminator that illuminates the inside of heating chamber from a side of upper wall of heating chamber. The heating cooking device further includes top panel that is disposed below upper wall of heating chamber, is formed of a semitransparent member to illuminate downward while diffusing light from first illuminator, and is provided with top panel opening serving as an opening through which camera images the inside of heating chamber.

A cooking appliance includes a housing and a plate-shaped cooking chamber divider which divides a cooking chamber into upper and lower cooking chamber regions. A cooking food support can be inserted into a cooking food support slide-in level in the upper cooking chamber region at a distance from an upper face of the cooking chamber divider, such that the distance between the upper face of the inserted cooking chamber divider and an upper face of the inserted cooking food support is between 10 mm and 30 mm, and/or the upper cooking chamber region has a fixedly arranged heating element, with a distance between the upper face of the inserted cooking food support and the heating element in the upper cooking chamber region and/or an upper rim of a boundary flange which defines a loading opening of the cooking chamber is between 160 mm and 210 mm.

A household cooking appliance includes a cooking compartment for receiving food to be cooked, a cooking compartment divider received in the cooking compartment for dividing the cooking compartment into different cooking compartment sections and designed for removal from the cooking compartment, and an identifying facility configured to identify the cooking compartment divider in the cooking compartment and to adapt an operating state of the household cooking appliance to the cooking compartment divider in response to an identification of the cooking compartment divider.

A cooking appliance includes a muffle to define a cooking chamber in which a hot air system is arranged to form a receiving space the hot air system between a muffle rear wall and a front wall of the hot air system. Hot air flows from the receiving space into the cooking chamber through air passage openings in the front wall. A cooking chamber divider separates the cooking chamber into first and second cooking chamber regions in an end position in which the cooking chamber divider overlaps with the front wall, when viewed in a depth direction of the cooking appliance and/or in a height direction of the cooking appliance. The cooking chamber divider has a front-wall-facing side with an edge region adjacent to the front wall and formed with an uneven flow conducting structure to deflect hot air through the air passage openings into the first cooking chamber region.

A heating device configured to heat an object including an emitter of thermal radiation; and a radiating plate defining a propagation surface to face the object, and an absorption surface for adsorbing the thermal radiation coming out of the emitter; the radiating plate is not in contact with the emitter, so as to be heated by irradiation, and not in contact with the object, so as to heat it by irradiation.